Scootaloo wants to participate in the Sisterhooves Social, so she decides to ask Rainbow Dash to be her sister! Will Rainbow Dash make the commitment, or will an opportunity to hang out with the Wonderbolts interfere with Scootaloo's plans?

Scootaloo is finally happy! She has found her home together with Rainbow Dash, and for almost a year, the two have been living together. But if it weren't enough that Scootaloo's life has just turned a massive corner, it is about to turn on

The Princesses' birthday celebration is here again, and Mayor Mare needs a scapegoat—er, trusted citizen—to handle Ponyville's gift. Deciding what to get for an ancient ruler who's seen everything will be a piece of cake.

While on a work trip to help family in Appleloosa, Big Macintosh strikes up some correspondences with friends back home. These are the letters that crossed Twilight Sparkle's desk. Sometimes words don't mean what they say.

When Scootaloo wonders why Rainbow Dash seems to be avoiding her, Dash decides to tell a story from her youth, about friendship gained, and friendship changed, in order to explain why seeing Scootaloo has been making her sad.

I can't think of another story that had this sort of premise (usually it's Rainbow Dash inflicting terrible injuries on herself, but let's not go there), so kudos on that front. The whole story flows at a nice pace, and there's a real emotional punch with the reveal of Ditzy's problem.

A couple of things that stood out for me:-> 'It wasn’t fair for Scootaloo to bear the consequences of her melancholy' - A very little gripe, but the rhythm of this sentence just doesn't seem right to me. Personally, I think that consequences could be replaced with 'brunt'.-> 'In this corner of Cloudsdale, there were only a few households with young fillies.' - Again, very small issue, but I get the feeling you mean 'foals'.-> '"Sometimes it looks like it might be there, buried deeply. I’d love to see that light again, and know that my sister was back. But I’m too afraid that if it did happen, and she did remember everything, I’d see a look of hate staring back at me.”' - I don't have anything to say, so this will have to do:

I also liked the little changes to the wording when it came to Ditzy's perspective, and the subtle inclusion of some slightly technical weather terms was a nice touch during the action scene. The whole flashback segment felt a little short to me, truth be told, but then again this is Rainbow Dash's flashback. Plus it got over everything that needed to be conveyed (poor, poor Ditzy...) without dragging on.

Ok. The only reason why I didn't cry was simply for 1 reason.You tell us. Normaly that's good but if you want to really connect with the reader you need to show us instead of tell us. Show us the confrontations when they were fillys. Show how they had a sister like bond. Include flashbacks. And don't tell us it's ditzy doo until rainbow dash takes scoot to meet up with her. You do that and I think this could he as emotional as "my little dashie"

13108 It was my original plan to hold the Ditzy reveal to the end, but I couldn't figure a way to handle the cutie mark plot points without having to rehash it all. Plus Ditzy in the character list would be a giveaway, too.

I love it! I read 3/4 of it this morning and couldn't focus through school all day cause I wanted to know what happened. Now I just finished it and it was lovely :) nice job! I almost even want a sequel if that was possible so... Consider that :P

You tied up the two pegasi with an interesting stoy. Enjoyed it much, and can't really point out anything that would be bad. However, it's... nice. Good story, but for me, they're all good. I enjoy almost every fic I read.. well, almost.

Two things "bothered" me slightly as I read this:#1 Ditzy Doo can be seen as a grown mare during the flashback in episode 23. Sure, she is a background pony so the animators might not have given it much thought, but I simply couldn't look past it as I read this story.#2 Second issue is a smaller one, I just personally prefer the explaination that Ditzy Doo is Dinky Doo's birthmother only that her father was a unicorn, thus making her a unicorn too, over the explaination that Dinky was adopted.

Still, my comment might come off as harsher than it is supposed to since I otherwise enjoyed the story greatly. Thank you for writing it.

21227 I'll cut-and-paste a comment I made about your point #1, among other things, over at EqD, so you can see what I was thinking:

I actually spent some time researching this. There's usually 3 colts, but in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles," the football one's not there yet as of the race. The basketball one's already got his cutie mark, but Dash said in "Call of the Cutie" that she was the first in her class to get one, so they're different ages. I figure he'd brag more about getting it first if he was younger than Dash, so he must be older. Also, Ditzy appears in the background in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles," and already looks older, so I put her in the older class. Thanks everypony for reading.

this is so awesome! If her name wasn't a huge plot twist, I think the name would have been the origins of a derpy pony or something like that. You have spun gold into these pixels sir. You win all my muffins

this is so awesome! If her name wasn't a huge plot twist, I think the name would have been the origins of a derpy pony or something like that. You have spun gold into these pixels sir. You win all my muffins

Love this. When the story started i was ready for some but then i got some when she told the story i was like and at the end I was all and after reading this fic i will finally be able to appreciate as a true character, not just a face. BTW, is not a chicken!

Wow! Thanks everypony for 10,000 page views! This got a lot bigger than I would have believed! Keep the comments comin'! I haven't really thought of a good idea for a sequel yet, but I do have plans for a side story elaborating on one of the events in "My Funny Sister," maybe in a month or so.

Great story, I was wondering for ever who was in the accident and I didn't really see the sad side till you said it was Derpy AKA Ditzy Doo and thats when I got a little teary eyed , another great story with Dash and Scoot Thank you

Just one quibble with the terminology in this story.Ponies do not go from being Fillies and Colts to being Mares and Stallions when they get their Cutie Marks as they are more or less pubescent and not actually adults. Filly and Colt would still apply until they are fully grown. If you wanted to make a terminology distinction you could say they went from being Foals to being "mature" Colts and Fillies.